HBfisher, had a four hour session this morning on a local beach. The catch consisted of a small dog fish, a small eel and a 3kg (approx) black backed gull. The latter gave a spirited fight, which it was quite prepared to continue once landed.

The bird was eventually subdued with a large towel thrown over it's head and a tight grip around the neck. I cut the line at the leader knot and the ungrateful sod was successfully released without so much as a word of thanks.


From there things went from bad to worse: my wife, who was supposed to be filming the session, never captured a single frame of my fight with the gull; she was too busy laughing.

Lovely morning, several takes but they were single bites that never returned. Very enjoyable morning, the temperature was five degrees when we hit the beach and twenty-two when we left a little after mid day.

We never blanked and that is what fishing is all about.